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Credit: Jeses
Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, the city's premier opera house and the home of Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra. Opera singers who have performed there include Maria Callas, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Jessye Norman. Inaugurated in 1934, the building has an extravagant Beaux Arts exterior in imported Italian Carrara white marble.